Hershey
/ˈhɝʃi/
Meaning
A surname.
A confection produced by The Hershey Company.
A village in Mayabeque, Cuba, also known as Camilo Cienfuegos.
A surname.
A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States, named for J. H. Hershey, a pioneer settler.
Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
An unincorporated community in California, United States.
A census-designated place in Pennsylvania, United States.
A village in Mayabeque, Cuba, also known as Camilo Cienfuegos.
A surname.
A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States, named for J. H. Hershey, a pioneer settler.
Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
An unincorporated community in California, United States.
A census-designated place in Pennsylvania, United States.
Examples
But she knows her friends and if she likes you she will go for walks with you and even eat a Hershey in front of the drugstore if you buy her one.
Then I arranged all my own and my roommate’s pillows in a voluptuous pile, placed so that I could see whether a silent housemotherly foot stood outside the swaying monk’s-cloth curtain that served as a door (to cut down our libidinous chitchat, the school board believed), and I put my hoard of Hersheys discreetly under a fold of the bedspread.
Like a cash register, the word candy bar rang up a Hershey in my mind. […] I saw the Hershey scored in ten squares and imagined breaking one off, pushing it to the roof of my mouth to ooze down my throat. I had been five whole days without candy.
I remembered a Hershey in my shirt pocket. I broke off a piece and ate it.
Word Forms
Hersheys
Etymology
From Hercé in Normandy. The villages are named after The Hershey Company, which is named after its founder, Milton S. Hershey.